Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall can keep East Germans from moving West, but it cannot prevent them from looking in that direction. Last week Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht felt obliged to order a turnabout during the party's Central Committee meeting in East Berlin...
...immediate result of the Cornell discovery was to raise some serious second thoughts about the preservation of food by radiation, a practice that is gradually gaining acceptance. Relatively heavy doses of radiation have been used to kill microorganisms that cause decay in food; lighter doses prevent potatoes from sprouting and kill insects that infest flour and cereals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the process safe enough to have cleared irradiated bacon, wheat and potatoes for public consumption, and the U.S. Army has already served some irradiated food in its mess halls. In Canada, the world's first...
...those chemicals-not only by direct impact of the high-energy particles that most scientists have held responsible for altering or destroying chromosomes. If this proves to be true, positive identification of the sugar-derived compounds might someday lead to the development of medicines that could alleviate or prevent many forms of radiation sickness...
...island," the officer wrote the Clarion Herald, a New Orleans Catholic newspaper: "There are two serious needs. One is clothing for the children. Many infants are naked. The other is for soap. Bathing is done in the rain, from contaminated wells or stagnant pools. The use of soap could prevent countless boils, infections and abscesses on these unfortunate children...
Perfect Relation. Entertainment does not end with the news columns. Both papers run suggestive ads. For a marriage counselor: "To all Americans and foreigners who would like to marry Vietnamese young girls and would like to know carefully all the national customs of the young ladies and also to prevent you from getting all the troubles, we are at your disposal." A hotel: "The best for relation in perfect security...